I've got a VIA chipset, which is why ATI hates my guts. Plus I use a lot of non-Microsoft programs like Netscape and Eudora which promptly crash the card upon cold boot. If it hasn't been running for 30 minutes, any "complex" GDI call like a splash screen blows it up. I'm also running 98, which will put up with more crap than NT (2000).
YMMV... but I have some friends with Radeons and they bitched and moaned about 9x glitches. I guess they have either better people on the NT drivers or their testers find NT bugs a faster because NT doesn't put up with stupid programming.
Not to flame, but ATI's drivers blow. Ask any owner of one of their cards (I have an AIW 128). It doesn't matter if the card kicks the GeForce 3 down the sidewalk, if the drivers suck upon release, you can put money down on people returning them for a GeForce 3 because Tribes 2 crashes/runs slower.
ATI has some good hardware. My AIW runs excellent in Linux (well, after the 3.3.6a X release) They just need to hire better programmers.
You totally missed the point, which was that the article was on dot.kde.org and not www.cnn.com. "Those" people you talk about read the latter, not the former.
...why do an IPO in the first place? When you've got a successful business with a private company, why would you want to allow money-grubbing stockholders to dictate how to run your business. IIRC, Seagate went private for that very reason.
The obvious answer is money. But if that's the case, what does Google need more money for?
The point of Mozilla was to make Netscape a cross-platform-something-or-other. It would be ridiculous to waste time porting or writing an emulation layer to run NS4.
I would just like to say that anybody who claims Slackware Linux is "irrelavant", only used by 7 people in the world, or that it "sucks" is blind to the awesome power and beauty that is Slack.
The Red Hat users will never understand that editing a easy to find config file to turn on the BIND is better than having some 31337 h@X0r script kiddie root your box because you didn't even know you were running BIND and don't have patchlevel 8.1-pre1-alpha4-test7-ac3 or something. They will also never comprehend why anyone would want to run Linux without X windows, because anything useful must have a GUI, right?
The Debian users will never understand that computers with 8 megs of RAM *are* useful. They will also be stuck with shitty installer that craps out early in the install where only later do you realize that the messup was fatal (my experience). It will also be nigh impossible to download ISOs or make a pseudo-image, because the listfiles, MD5 sums, and packages will always be in separate FTP/HTTP sites. Only two of the sites will have the files you need, the third will carry the last part only when Debian has issued 2 more releases past the one you want, because they rushed and botched the job (See Debian 2.2R2). The ISOs are never to be found because rabid Debian followers would download them like crazy.
(ok, I'm just poking fun here on these last two...)
The Mandrake users will belive that computers that don't support a 256 color framebuffer aren't worth installing Linux on.:)
The SuSe users will trash hard drives under 4 gig, because there's no way you can install 6 disks of every Linux app on the planet on something like that.
Slackware is the ultimate Linux distro from which all others merely add crap on to. It is the height of configurabilty. What other distro will let you NOT INSTALL binutils (things like 'ls' and 'cat') so you can cram a complete DNS server or router into a RAM disk. I will probably never run another distro (save maybe Debian if they clean up their act). Slackware lets me count the buttons on the shirts of all my software just like I used to do in DOS. I can cut out whatever crap that I don't need and reclaim my disk space or speed. Trying that in Red Hat will probably end up breaking some obscure tool that you need 2 months later.
The percentage of people using Slackware may be low, but this does not diminish its usefulness. If you ever find yourself bitching and moaning about Your Favorite Distro, it's almost a guarantee that somebody can come up and say:
You're talking past, I'm talking present. My point was that a long time ago professional 3D accelerators cost lotsa money. Comparatively, they still cost lots. nVidia is notching up the prices and entering the professional-grade video card price ranges.
You can buy a 3DLabs AGP Oxygen GVX1 for around $600. This guy is billed as "Mid & High-end". I couldn't tell you how it stacks up against a GF2 or 3, but there's a price2price reference.
The whole point of the modern "3D accelerator" was to bring 3D graphics to the consumer at modest prices as compared to 3DLabs, SGI, and their ilk. Now, it looks like nVidia is either knowingly or unwittingly attempting to enter that territory by increasing prices to the "professional" 3D range.
Nobody is going to program exclusively for this card until it saturates the user base. Which, at this price level, ain't gonna happen soon.
Statement: People who switched to LinuxPPC will switch back to Mac OS X because it's easier to use.
If thats so, why in the heck did they move to LinuxPPC in the first place? Certainly you must be joking if you think people switched from anything below Mac OS 9.x to LinuxPPC for ease of use? PPC, by their own admission, is still a bit behind the main x86 branch too, making it a tad (perhaps more) unstable than it's big brother.
You assertation is ridiculous. The fact that you got modded up scares me, because that mean there are at least two people out there that this makes sense to.;-)
I live within 150 meters of the library and about 50% of the other buildings I go to. I was thinking I would boost the sigal strength for the rest of them.:)
I want one so I can put them on and stroll around campus with them. Nothing is more boring than a walk to the cage to get your car. Or, music in the library.
Now if they only came with two-way computer interfaces to skip to the next song.
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So, by "topless", you mean "annoying KDE window covering the breasts"?:)
If they would deliver the miracle that is Digital Paper, maybe they wouldn't have to look around to scrounge up cash. But no, some other startups will all implement it badly and at the same time, patent-infringing each other to death.
I'd laugh if Adobe came up with it first, since they've got the PDF format down like it's the digital paper that can't get out of the computer, but who am I kidding.
Just a mindless rant... I want my digital paper, Xerox! Where the hell is it!
Slashdot Mirror
Internet2 users, try this one. ;)
ftp://wolf:threedee@ashpool7.dhs.org/
Google. :)
http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=xx-hacker
Yes, I laughed my ass off too....
I've got a VIA chipset, which is why ATI hates my guts. Plus I use a lot of non-Microsoft programs like Netscape and Eudora which promptly crash the card upon cold boot. If it hasn't been running for 30 minutes, any "complex" GDI call like a splash screen blows it up. I'm also running 98, which will put up with more crap than NT (2000).
YMMV... but I have some friends with Radeons and they bitched and moaned about 9x glitches. I guess they have either better people on the NT drivers or their testers find NT bugs a faster because NT doesn't put up with stupid programming.
Not to flame, but ATI's drivers blow. Ask any owner of one of their cards (I have an AIW 128). It doesn't matter if the card kicks the GeForce 3 down the sidewalk, if the drivers suck upon release, you can put money down on people returning them for a GeForce 3 because Tribes 2 crashes/runs slower.
ATI has some good hardware. My AIW runs excellent in Linux (well, after the 3.3.6a X release) They just need to hire better programmers.
You totally missed the point, which was that the article was on dot.kde.org and not www.cnn.com. "Those" people you talk about read the latter, not the former.
...why do an IPO in the first place? When you've got a successful business with a private company, why would you want to allow money-grubbing stockholders to dictate how to run your business. IIRC, Seagate went private for that very reason.
The obvious answer is money. But if that's the case, what does Google need more money for?
The point of Mozilla was to make Netscape a cross-platform-something-or-other. It would be ridiculous to waste time porting or writing an emulation layer to run NS4.
Don't take this as a flame .... it's just a rant.
:)
I would just like to say that anybody who claims Slackware Linux is "irrelavant", only used by 7 people in the world, or that it "sucks" is blind to the awesome power and beauty that is Slack.
The Red Hat users will never understand that editing a easy to find config file to turn on the BIND is better than having some 31337 h@X0r script kiddie root your box because you didn't even know you were running BIND and don't have patchlevel 8.1-pre1-alpha4-test7-ac3 or something. They will also never comprehend why anyone would want to run Linux without X windows, because anything useful must have a GUI, right?
The Debian users will never understand that computers with 8 megs of RAM *are* useful. They will also be stuck with shitty installer that craps out early in the install where only later do you realize that the messup was fatal (my experience). It will also be nigh impossible to download ISOs or make a pseudo-image, because the listfiles, MD5 sums, and packages will always be in separate FTP/HTTP sites. Only two of the sites will have the files you need, the third will carry the last part only when Debian has issued 2 more releases past the one you want, because they rushed and botched the job (See Debian 2.2R2). The ISOs are never to be found because rabid Debian followers would download them like crazy.
(ok, I'm just poking fun here on these last two...)
The Mandrake users will belive that computers that don't support a 256 color framebuffer aren't worth installing Linux on.
The SuSe users will trash hard drives under 4 gig, because there's no way you can install 6 disks of every Linux app on the planet on something like that.
Slackware is the ultimate Linux distro from which all others merely add crap on to. It is the height of configurabilty. What other distro will let you NOT INSTALL binutils (things like 'ls' and 'cat') so you can cram a complete DNS server or router into a RAM disk. I will probably never run another distro (save maybe Debian if they clean up their act). Slackware lets me count the buttons on the shirts of all my software just like I used to do in DOS. I can cut out whatever crap that I don't need and reclaim my disk space or speed. Trying that in Red Hat will probably end up breaking some obscure tool that you need 2 months later.
The percentage of people using Slackware may be low, but this does not diminish its usefulness. If you ever find yourself bitching and moaning about Your Favorite Distro, it's almost a guarantee that somebody can come up and say:
"Oh, well, Slackware does that just fine..."
That guy doesn't know the difference between the phone line 64K baseline multiplier and the powers of 2.
But hey, he had a kinda good point.
So, what we REALLY need is a transparent interception proxy that you install on your computer, spies on your CDDB queries, and reports them to FreeDB.
:)
But, given that people don't update their CD collection *that* often.... hmmm.... you know, thats probably too much work
Yeah, that would work until CDDB either blocks the proxy or bans it's IP.
:)
Going to have to come up with something more inventive than that.
You're talking past, I'm talking present. My point was that a long time ago professional 3D accelerators cost lotsa money. Comparatively, they still cost lots. nVidia is notching up the prices and entering the professional-grade video card price ranges.
You can buy a 3DLabs AGP Oxygen GVX1 for around $600. This guy is billed as "Mid & High-end". I couldn't tell you how it stacks up against a GF2 or 3, but there's a price2price reference.
The whole point of the modern "3D accelerator" was to bring 3D graphics to the consumer at modest prices as compared to 3DLabs, SGI, and their ilk. Now, it looks like nVidia is either knowingly or unwittingly attempting to enter that territory by increasing prices to the "professional" 3D range.
:)
Nobody is going to program exclusively for this card until it saturates the user base. Which, at this price level, ain't gonna happen soon.
Wonder if the "professionals" will strike back
You mean you don't HAVE a lead-acid, heavy as hell, noisily beeping, hooked-to-your-serial-port, set-to-shutdown-your-computer, UPS?
What kind of geek ARE you?!
That didn't make a darn bit of sense.
;-)
Statement: People who switched to LinuxPPC will switch back to Mac OS X because it's easier to use.
If thats so, why in the heck did they move to LinuxPPC in the first place? Certainly you must be joking if you think people switched from anything below Mac OS 9.x to LinuxPPC for ease of use? PPC, by their own admission, is still a bit behind the main x86 branch too, making it a tad (perhaps more) unstable than it's big brother.
You assertation is ridiculous. The fact that you got modded up scares me, because that mean there are at least two people out there that this makes sense to.
advPAYMENTance
I live within 150 meters of the library and about 50% of the other buildings I go to. I was thinking I would boost the sigal strength for the rest of them. :)
I want one so I can put them on and stroll around campus with them. Nothing is more boring than a walk to the cage to get your car. Or, music in the library.
Now if they only came with two-way computer interfaces to skip to the next song.
So, by "topless", you mean "annoying KDE window covering the breasts"? :)
If they would deliver the miracle that is Digital Paper, maybe they wouldn't have to look around to scrounge up cash. But no, some other startups will all implement it badly and at the same time, patent-infringing each other to death.
I'd laugh if Adobe came up with it first, since they've got the PDF format down like it's the digital paper that can't get out of the computer, but who am I kidding. Just a mindless rant... I want my digital paper, Xerox! Where the hell is it!
I like how Taco decides he needs to bypass any load balancing software Tom's Hardware might have and link DIRECTLY to a server in the farm. :)
Well, now that you mention it, expect the NT5 results up within a month.
;)
The silly part about an open forum is that the guys you're plotting against can read your ideas too.
Bah, who was calling you wrong . . . you finished the definition for the uneducated (me). ;-)
Uhh, part of the reason tacking in water works is because of the force the water exerts on the boat. There is no such force in space.
:-)
So, want to try that idea again?